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BCSHCI
2007
14 years 18 days ago
Social support in empathic online communities for older people
The goal of my PhD is to investigate how older people exchange social support in empathic online communities. This will be achieved through an in-depth investigation of online com...
Ulrike Pfeil
APSEC
2005
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Supporting Knowledge Collaboration Using Social Networks in a Large-Scale Online Community of Software Development Projects
The scale-free network shown in the small world phenomenon indicates that our human society consists of a small number of people who play the role of hubs linked with many nodes (...
Masao Ohira, Tetsuya Ohoka, Takeshi Kakimoto, Naok...
HICSS
2005
IEEE
91views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2005»
14 years 4 months ago
Old is Gold: Integrating Older Workers in CSCW
The tradition of a worker who retires by age 65 is being replaced by a trend of longer periods of employment, leading people to believe that an aging workforce will be a major soc...
Gregorio Convertino, Umer Farooq, Mary Beth Rosson...
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Patterns of empathy in online communication
This article presents an investigation of empathy within an online community for older people (SeniorNet). Qualitative content analysis of 400 messages from a discussion board abo...
Ulrike Pfeil, Panayiotis Zaphiris
ICDM
2010
IEEE
202views Data Mining» more  ICDM 2010»
13 years 9 months ago
Discovering Overlapping Groups in Social Media
Abstract--The increasing popularity of social media is shortening the distance between people. Social activities, e.g., tagging in Flickr, bookmarking in Delicious, twittering in T...
Xufei Wang, Lei Tang, Huiji Gao, Huan Liu